Class Counts Student Edition - Brossura

Wright, Erik

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521663946 ISBN 13: 9780521663946

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

This textbook provides students with a lively and penetrating exploration of the concept of class and its relevance for understanding a wide range of issues in contemporary society. Erik Olin Wright treats class as a common explanatory factor and examines three broad themes: class structure, class and gender, and class consciousness. Specific empirical studies include such diverse topics as class variations in the gender division of labour in housework; friendship networks across class boundaries; the American class structure since 1960; and cross-national variations in class consciousness. The author evaluates these studies in the light of expectations within the Marxist tradition of class analysis. This Student Edition of Class Counts thus combines Wright's sophisticated account of central and enduring questions in social theory with practical analyses of detailed social problems.

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Descrizione del libro

This textbook provides a lively and penetrating exploration of the concept of class and its relevance for understanding a wide range of issues in contemporary society. Erik Olin Wright combines a sophisticated account of central and enduring questions in social theory with practical analyses of detailed social problems.

Contenuti

1. Class analysis; Part I. Structural Analyses of Class: 2. Class structure; 3. The transformation of the American class structure, 1960–1990; 4. The fall and rise of the petty bourgeoisie; 5. The permeability of class boundaries; Part II. Class and Gender: 6. Conceptualizing the interaction of class and gender; 7. Individuals, families and class analysis; 8. The non-effects of class on the gendered division of labor in housework; 9. The gender gap in workplace authority; Part III. Class Structure and Class Consciousness: 10. A general model of class consciousness and class formation; 11. Class consciousness and class formation in Sweden, the USA and Japan; Part IV. Conclusion: 12. Confirmations, surprises and theoretical reconstructions.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521663946
• ISBN 13: 9780521663946
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 312